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Jar: C.2 & A-2020

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Jar

Maker(s)

Potter: Hanssen, Louis

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Description

Stoneware jar, carved and glazed; cover with knob

Tall, circular, thinly-thrown, red-brown stoneware jar with gently convex, fluted sides and short, wide, slightly everted neck. Domed cover with central, inverted cone-shaped knob. Dark brown glaze. Underside flat and unglazed.

Notes

History note: Given by Louis Hanssen to the potter Emmanuel Cooper. Inherited by the donor, David Horbury, who was Cooper's partner for thirty years.

Legal notes

Given by David Horbury, 2020

Measurements and weight

Height: 24 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Westbourne Grove ⪼ London ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2020-01-27) by Horbury, David

Dating

20th Century
Circa 1962 CE - 1963 CE

Note

Louis Hanssen (1934-68) was originally a poet and theatre designer in Canada before settling in England. In 1960, he met and married the Australian potter Gwyn Hanssen Piggott (then Gwyn John), who taught him to throw; they set up a studio together in Westbourne Grove, London and both exhibited to acclaim at Liberty, Heal's and Primavera, then London's premier craft and design shop. The couple separated in 1965 and Hanssen died suddenly in 1968 from an accidental drugs overdose.

While his output was perforce limited, Hanssen’s work is of exceptional quality. The influence of Lucie Rie, a friend who he and Gwyn met while attending classes at Camberwell School of Art, is apparent; and he also drew on the work of other contemporary ceramic artists, including Emmanuel Cooper, to whom he gave this pot. Cooper later included it in the seminal Crafts Council exhibition, 'The Maker’s Eye' (1982).

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

At Widest Point Diameter 16 cm
Decoration

Materials used in production

Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Thrown stoneware , carved and glazed

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2 & A-2020
Primary reference Number: 240190
Entry form number: 507
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 4 February 2020 Updated: Wednesday 6 January 2021 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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